15.01.2025 16:26 —
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This is the decline in membership of the Seven Sisters of Mainline Protestant Christianity.
American Baptist: -24%
Disciples of Christ: -74%
Evangelical Lutheran: -45%
Presbyterian Church USA: -62%
Episcopal: -36%
United Church of Christ: -57%
United Methodist: -40%
Ashes to ashes
11.01.2025 05:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Being politically liberal and being highly religious are just not compatible.
Among white people who never attend:
45% are liberal.
Among weekly+ attenders:
11% are liberal.
That same pattern is there for every single racial group.
Family/childhood home gone. My folks lived there for 60 years. Now they are old. Lost everything. Neighborhood all ashes. Town all ashes.
09.01.2025 05:10 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
When do people leave religion?
According to this survey of 2,400 nones, there's a specific window of time:
15-25 years old.
That's when more than half of non-religious folks head for the exits.
The most popular age was 18.
About 60% of white evangelicals identify as "very conservative" or "conservative."
About the same share of atheists describe themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal."
There's no religious group I can find that is evenly balanced between left and right on this metric.
For people who were raised in an evangelical household, but left that - where do they end up?
In the 1970s:
56% became mainline Protestants
20% became non-religious.
In the 2020s:
18% became mainline Protestants
59% became non-religious.
06.01.2025 02:50 —
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I write books because I enjoy it.
But writing books today is like making horse shoes.
Kinda neat, but mostly useless.
The next Congress will include:
- 1 "Humanist" (Rep. Jared Huffman)
- 1 "agnostic" (Yassamin Ansari)
- 1 "none" (Emily Randall)
- Nearly two dozen Democrats who chose not to answer the religion question
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/one-new-me...
And by the way weed makes me anxious. I don’t smoke it. 😮💨
31.12.2024 02:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why are the non-religious always at the forefront of social progress?
When out for a walk, people who give their barking/growling dogs treats to “distract” them are actually just rewarding them and encouraging their viciousness.
29.12.2024 18:22 —
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zisn...
Secularization porn.
“Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.”
t.co/TPpsCAuU9q
Democracy and secularity seem to go hand-in-hand.
I wonder which causes which?
Or are they both caused by a third factor?
This morning
5-7 feet
From GOODBYE RELIGION by Cragun and Smith (2024)
So proud of our Secular Studies series at NYU press!
Some light morning reading to start your Thursday.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
There is no mandate. Pass it on.
17.12.2024 20:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Secular people always least homophobic.
Explanations?
Not: “Are you….?”
But: “Do you identify as?”
Can someone help me here?
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If
I
Stack
The words
Does it
Make
It
Poetry?
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